scholarly journals Philanthropic Motives of China’s Celebrities in Media Representation: From an Impression Management Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinghua Gao ◽  
Pengfei Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Impression Management ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Chinese Characteristics ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Management Perspective ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
Charitable Activities ◽  
The Relationship

Background: In China, celebrities, represented by entertainment and sports personalities, are often involved in charitable activities to assist the party-state in solving social problems. Although previous research has addressed the manifestation of prosocial behavior by Chinese celebrities, altruistic engagements have rarely been theorized from the perspective of impression management.Methods: Based on the perspective of impression management, we use the discourse analysis approach to analyze the interview manuscripts of Chinese celebrities in media reports and then summarize the charitable motives and impression management strategies adopted by Chinese celebrities in their self-presentation.Results: Chinese celebrities’ self-presentation of philanthropic motives in the media can be roughly divided into five categories: motivation for empathy-altruism, motivation for social responsibility, motivation to gain prestige, and pursue fame, motivation to reduce negative emotions, and motivation to achieve fulfillment and satisfaction. The philanthropic motives presented in media reports include the impression management processes of celebrities. They adopt a variety of image management strategies to self-present their philanthropic motives, and sometimes several strategies coexist.Conclusion: Our paper helps to expand the existing understanding of the relationship between impression management and philanthropy. The presentation of Chinese celebrities’ philanthropic motivations in the media reflects the uniqueness of China’s political, institutional, and social environment in influencing celebrity philanthropy. As a philanthropic phenomenon with Chinese characteristics, this study could provide some insights into the understanding of celebrities and philanthropy in other cultural contexts.

scholarly journals Low Self-Esteem and Selfie Posting Among Young Women

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-168
Author(s):  
Roberta Biolcati
Keyword(s):  
Impression Management ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Body Satisfaction ◽  
Satisfaction With Life ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Critical Factor ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
The Relationship

Background: Self-esteem is a critical factor in online impression management strategies and could play a crucial role in explaining women’s selfie-posting behaviours. Previous works examining relationships between self-esteem and self-presentation on social media have yielded controversial results. Objective: This study was performed to clarify the relationship between self-esteem and the frequency of taking and posting own, group and partner selfies on Social Networking Sites (SNS). Methods: A sample of 692 Italian young women (18-28 years old) completed questionnaires on self-esteem, satisfaction with life, body satisfaction and selfie posting bahaviours. The low self-esteem group was compared with the high self-esteem group. Results: Results showed that women with low self-esteem are more dissatisfied with their body image and life and significantly they post fewer types of selfies compared to women with high self-esteem. Conclusion: Findings from this study provide new insights into the relation between self-esteem and selfie impression management strategies.

scholarly journals Influence of Entrepreneurial Orientation on Venture Capitalists' Initial Trust

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongtao Yang ◽  
Lei Zhang ◽  
Yenchun Jim Wu ◽  
Hangyu Shi ◽  
Shuting Xie
Keyword(s):  
Impression Management ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Entrepreneurial Orientation ◽  
Empirical Test ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Venture Capitalists ◽  
Initial Trust ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
The Relationship

The effectiveness of trust has been extensively investigated in entrepreneurship studies. However, compared to the outcomes of trust, we still lack knowledge about the mechanisms underlying venture capitalists' initial trust in entrepreneurs. Drawing from signal theory and impression management theory, this study explores an impression management motivational explanation for the influencing factors of venture capitalists' initial trust. An empirical test is based on 202 valid questionnaires from venture capitalists, and the results indicate that the signal of five dimensions of entrepreneurial orientation has a significant impact on the initial trust of venture capitalists and that a signal of entrepreneurial orientation of perseverance or passion positively influences venture capitalists' initial trust through acquired impression management strategies, while a signal of entrepreneurial orientation of risk-taking, innovation, or proactivity positively affects the initial trust of venture capitalists through defensive impression management strategies. The perceptions of entrepreneurs' hypocrisy by venture capitalists negatively moderate the relationship between acquired impression management strategies and the initial trust of venture capitalists and negatively moderate the relationship between defensive impression management strategies and the initial trust of venture capitalists.

scholarly journals The Struggle for Control: How do Norwegian TV-Celebrities Deal With Critical Media Exposure?

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 68
Author(s):  
Fanny Duckert ◽  
Kim Edgar Karlsen
Keyword(s):  
Impression Management ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Media Exposure ◽  
Direct Effects ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Defensive Strategies ◽  
Strong Focus ◽  
The Press ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
The Media

Ten Norwegian TV-hosts, all nation-wide celebrities, were interviewed about their experiences with critical media exposure. How did they perceive their relationship with the press?  What were the main sources of stress? How did they cope? All expressed a strong focus on impression management and self-presentation. The majority described an independent and often playful interaction with the press, in order to keep control over their programs and their privacy.All had experienced negative media exposure. Sources of stress were one-sided presentations, evil informers, personal attacks, and harming their family. They experienced both direct effects by the media coverage, and indirect effects through interaction with other people.The majority used problem-focused coping strategies, actively influencing the media coverage; emotion-focused strategies, regulating their thoughts and feelings; and meaning-focused strategies, allowing reflection. Proactive self-presentation work helped maintain and protect their identities.Two of the participants reported using more defensive strategies, and had suffered more intensely.

scholarly journals TO TEST OR NOT? SINGULAR OR MULTIPLE HERITAGE?

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 321-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer L. Hochschild ◽  
Maya Sen
Keyword(s):  
New Technology ◽  
Multiple Points ◽  
Racial Identities ◽  
Public Opinion Surveys ◽  
New Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractDNA ancestry testing may seem frivolous, but it points to two crucial questions: First, what is the relationship, if any, between biology and race? Second, how much and why do people prefer clear, singular racial identities over blurred, mixed racial self-understandings, or the reverse? We posit that individuals of different racial or ethnic backgrounds will have different levels of support for this new technology. In particular, despite the history of harm caused by the biologization of race, we theorize that African Americans will be receptive to the use of DNA ancestry testing because conventional genealogical searches for ancestral roots are mostly unavailable to them. This “broken chain” theory leads to two hypotheses, of disproportionately high Black interest in DNA ancestry testing—thus an implicit acceptance of a link between biology and race—and high acceptance among Blacks of multiple heritages despite a preference for evidence of roots in Africa.To test these hypotheses, we analyze two databases of U.S. newspaper articles, one with almost 6,000 items and a second with 700. We also analyze two new public opinion surveys of nationally representative samples of adult Americans. Most of the evidence comes from the second survey, which uses vignettes to obtain views about varied results of DNA ancestry testing. We find that the media increasingly report on the links between genetic inheritance and race, and emphasize singular racial ancestry more than multiple heritages. The surveys show, consistent with our theory, that Blacks (and Hispanics, to some degree) are especially receptive to DNA ancestry testing, and are pleased with not only a finding of group singularity but also a finding of multiple points of origin. Qualitative readings of media reports illuminate some of the reasons behind these survey findings. We conclude with a brief discussion of the broader importance of DNA ancestry testing.

scholarly journals Narratives of natural disaster survivors in Indonesian media: The case of Tempo magazine

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-51
Author(s):  
Budi Irawanto
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Human Subject ◽  
The Body ◽  
News Magazine ◽  
Disaster Survivors ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
Journalism Research ◽  
The Relationship

Dubbed as the ‘ring of fire,’, Indonesian territories have witnessed many forms of natural disasters such as volcano eruptions, earthquakes and tsunamis, which had been widely reported in the mass media. While the media has reported the scale of destruction and number of casualties caused by those disasters, they have also narrated dramatic recounts of the survivors. Imbued with spectacular imagery, the media seek to appeal to the audiences emotionally and evoke sentiments of solidarity as well as humanitarian actions. Employing a textual analysis of media reports in Indonesia, particularly from the weekly news magazine Tempo, this study explores the way in which the media frame the narratives of the survivors of natural disasters (volcano eruptions, earthquakes and tsunamis) across Indonesia. Although the media are expected to report events objectively, this study demonstrates the affective element in the practice of journalism on natural disasters. Therefore, this study will contribute to the growing research on the relationship between media and disasters, particularly in the context of a disaster-prone country such as Indonesia. In particular, it will contribute to the body of journalism research which looks at the role of narrating the human subject in tragic events such as natural disasters.

Covering Your Face on Facebook

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 166-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele M. Strano ◽  
Jill Wattai Queen
Keyword(s):  
Impression Management ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Identity Management ◽  
Potential Model ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Online Identity ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Survey Results

This study examines the ways in which identity is managed on social networking sites through image suppression practices – namely, untagging and requesting deletion on Facebook. Goffman’s theory of impression management is used, focusing on his understudied ideas about how individuals respond to what others communicate about them, by controlling for information that is discrepant with their desired self-presentation. Data are reported from an exploratory set of qualitative interviews and an online quantitative survey. Results showed that many Facebook users engaged in suppression strategies, albeit infrequently. In addition, users were statistically more likely to not post a potentially damaging image than they were to untag it, and were more likely to untag it than to request that another user delete it. The authors suggest that one possibility is that users avoid more overt identity management strategies because they carry the risk of making users look duplicitous. A potential model is suggested that future research might test to develop a fuller understanding of online identity management.

Socially Desirable Responding and Offence Characteristics Among Rapists

1996 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daryl G. Kroner ◽  
John R. Weekes
Keyword(s):  
Impression Management ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
The Self ◽  
Socially Desirable Responding ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between socially desirable responding and offence characteristics is examined with 49 rapists. Socially desirable responding (SDR) was measured by the Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding. Offence characteristics included: (a) perpetrator’s relationship to the victim; (b) severity of victim injury; and (c) victim’s age. Greater victim injury was associated with lower Impression Management (r = -.27, p<.03) and Denial scores (r = -.32, p<.01). No significant relationship occurred between offence characteristics and the self-deceptive scales of Denial of the Negative and Over Confident Rigidity. Alternative to the underreporting hypothesis, self-presentation and the acquisition of socially appropriate skills may explain the SDR/violence relationship.

scholarly journals Self-presentation in “unsuitable” resumes: A case from Serbia

Sociologija ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 503-518 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natasa Simic ◽  
Milica Vukelic ◽  
Vesna Djordjevic
Keyword(s):  
Impression Management ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Self Construal ◽  
Job Candidates ◽  
Employment Needs

The main goal of this research was to explore the ways people portray themselves in resumes, labelled as ?unsuitable? after the first review of the recruiters in a manufacturing company in Serbia. The form and the content of fifty resumes were analyzed using qualitative content analysis, inductive approach. Personal life stories described in an intimate and submissive tone were predominantly present in resumes, compared to the description of work experience and competencies. Concerning the content of the resumes, two core categories emerged - I as a worker and Employment needs. Finding support in the literature dealing with postsocialist transformation in Serbia and Hofstede?s theory, results are interpreted as pointing to the opposition of two value systems in Serbia: that of the authors of ?unsuitable? resumes, reflecting collectivistic and feminine values and that of the job market in Serbia, reflecting manly individualistic and masculine values. The authors of "unsuitable" resumes display interdependent self-construal, use defensive impression management strategies and their need to work is exclusively financial in nature. Finally, the need for better understanding between job candidates and employers, having different value systems, especially in the context of actual socio-economic changes in Serbia is discussed.

Cognitive Ability and Self-Reported Efficacy of Self-Presentation Predict Faking on Personality Measures

2005 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 194-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cornelia A. Pauls ◽  
Nicolas W. Crost
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Ability ◽  
Impression Management ◽  
The Self ◽  
Personality Measures ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Original Meaning ◽  
Situational Pressure ◽  
Neo Five Factor Inventory ◽  
Fake Good ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract. The main aim of the present study was to investigate whether faking on personality measures is predicted by cognitive ability and self-reported efficacy of positive self-presentation (ESP) assessed under honest conditions. 123 participants completed the NEO Five Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI) and the self-deceptive enhancement (SDE) and impression management (IM) scales of the Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding Version 7 (BIDR) under four instructional sets: honest, fake bad, fake good, and two specifically formulated applicant instructions. In line with the assumption that personality measures lose their original meaning under the instruction to fake, it could be shown that the relationship between honest and faked NEO-FFI scales decreased with increasing situational pressure. In line with the hypothesis that faking reflects an ability, it could be demonstrated that general intelligence was related to the amount of faking, to the ability to perceive the situational requirements, and to the ability to fake in line with the situational requirements. In addition, self-reported ESP, but not SDE and IM, was positively related to positive self-presentation. Our findings imply that faking on personality measures should not only be seen as a threat to validity, but rather as a positive, adaptive, and probably predictive variable, which should be investigated in its own right.

Facing Off on Twitter: A Generation Y Interpretation of Professional Athlete Profile Pictures

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 317-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie Lebel ◽  
Karen Danylchuk
Keyword(s):  
Impression Management ◽  
Generation Y ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Strategic Alignment ◽  
Positive Word ◽  
Professional Athlete ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Profile Pictures

This study investigated how professional athletes present themselves in their Twitter profile pictures and how athlete self-presentation is interpreted by a Generation Y audience (N = 206). Goffman’s theory of self-presentation guided the analysis with a specific focus on the notions of front- and backstage performances as they relate to impression-management strategies. Participants assessed a sample of profile photos of the most followed male and female athletes on Twitter by providing their first impressions of each athlete’s image and then evaluating photo favorability and effectiveness. This research provides evidence to suggest that individuals invest meaning in the social cues provided in athlete profile pictures. Athletes who highlighted a sport context were consistently ranked most favorably and effectively and were linked with positive word associations. These findings underscore the importance of a strategic alignment between social-media profile content, profile photos, and the brand established by athletes.

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